Since this is apparently my week to come out of the closet, I might as well admit my love of modern furniture. Through a connection at Herman Miller, I was able to procure a fabled Eames Lounge chair and ottoman for a third of the retail price. Along with my loving wife and darling child, every evening I come home to the warm, leather embrace of my iconic chair. Yes, it does happen to appear in the title sequence for that show where the four gays make over a straight loser with bad hair and a booger wall into a closeted homosexual with a clean apartment. Nonetheless, I still love the chair.

I don't love it enough to tattoo a picture of it across my forearm or anything even crazier than that, but I will put it on a t-shirt and force my child to wear it while getting photographed in front of a graffiti-covered wall. Again, instant hipster. And she totally gets into it.
After I did my last post about the Hipster Baby Shirt project, a lot of people asked if I would sell the shirts. At this point I'm still just using ink-jet iron-ons, and I wouldn't feel comfortable selling shirts unless they were actually silkscreened. Plus, what I'm doing with the project is putting things that I love on shirts in order to create some truly unique clothes for her, and that is something that everybody can do. It really is so easy just to take a picture with a digital camera (or "borrow" an image from the web) and then manipulate it with photoshop to look cool (use the "piant bucket" function to white out the background). Then all you do is print it on t-shirt transfer paper and your kid's got a shirt that no one else has. Someday I plan on commissioning some silkscreened shirts, and when I do I'll advertise them on the blog. But until then, I can't encourage you enough to go out and make some for yourselves. It's a lot of fun.